Phonograph-record cabinet.



H. H. PE'MBERTON &'C. A. MOORE.

PHONOGRAPH RECORD CABINET. APPLICATION FILED MAYH. 191a.

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Patented Apr. 30, 1918.

H. H. P EIVIBERTON d: C. A. MOORE. PHONOGRAPH- RECORD CABINET. APPLICATION FILED MAY 12. me.

Patented Apr. so, 1918.

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HARRY H. PEMBEBTON AND CHARLES MOORE, OF ROSEVILLE, OHIQ.

PHONOGRAIPH-RECOBD CABINET.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that We, HARRY H. PE BER- won and GnARLEs A. MOORE, citizens of the United States, residing at Roseville, in the county of Muskingum, State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Phonograph- Record Cabinet; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to the art of cabi-.

nets, and more particularly to a cabinet for talking machine records, disk records that are used upon victrolas and grafonolas and similar machines.

One of the objects of the inventionis to provide a cabinet having a plurality of compartments to hold the disk records, there be ing a plurality of pull rods mounted in guides of the cabinet and provided with downwardly extending arms, disposed in the rear of the edges of said records, whereby upon pulling any one of the rods, the record (which may be listed corresponding to the number of the rod) will be discharged from its respective compartment. A list of records numbered according to the numerals upon the pull buttons of the rods may be carried by the inner face of the door of the cabinet.

In practical fields the details of construction may necessitate alterations falling within the scope of what is claimed.

The invention comprises further features and combination of parts as hereinafter set forth, shown in the drawings and claimed.

In the drawings,

Figure 1 is a new in perspective of the improved record cabinet constructed in accordance with the invention.

Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view on line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view on line 3-3 of Fig. 1 at right angles to Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a detailperspective view of one of the pull rods.

Referring more especially to the drawings 1 designates a cabinet, preferably rectangular in contour, which is provided with a bottom 2 and a horizontal partition 3 spaced considerably above the bottom. This artition 3 is connected to the opposite si es of the cabinet in any suitable manner, but is somewhat shorter than the depth of the cabinet, thereby forming spaces 4 and 5 for- Specification of Letters Patent. Patignitigfl Apr, gflgjlgjlfi, Application filed May17, 191s. Serial No. 93,084.

wardly and rearwardly. The under face of the partition 3 is provided with a plurality a, beyond which the bottom is inclined forwardly and upwardly at a greater angle than the first inclined portion, so as to act as a stop for the record, as it is rolled out on its edge. The bottom 2 is provided-with a plurality of grooves 8 arranged in parallelism, and at spaced intervals corresponding to the spaced intervals of the grooves 6.

H Secured in the grooves 6 and 8 are the upper and lower edges of a plurality of vertical partitions 9, forming compartments for disk records 10. Rising upwardly from the forward and rear portions of the horizontal partition 3 are partition walls 11 and 12 having a plurality of axially alined apertures or openings 13 and 14. Arranged in said guide openings or apertures 13 and 14 is a plurality of pull rods 15 having their forward ends provided with knobs or buttons 16, and their rear portions terminating in downwardly extending arms 17 having flatened portions 18, which fit edge-wise in the rear of the record compartment, so that the rear edges of the records will contact with the front faces of said flattened portions, whereby when any one of said rods is pulled, its respective arm 17 will discharge or move a record until the inclined part 19 of the bottom will limit the record in its movement. The knobs or buttons 16 are so spaced from the bend where the arms 17 depend from the body of the rods 15, that when said rods are pushed back inplace, the arms 17 are held spaced from the back of the cabinet whereby as the records are inserted in their compartmentsthe arms 17 will cushion the records, thereby relieving the sudden jar on the records. A record having been pushed forwardly to be limited by the inclined surface 19 it may be easily grasped and re moved from its compartment. As shown there are fifteen compartments, therefor the knobs or buttons are numbered accordingly (1 to 15 inclusive), and arranged on the inner face of the front closure 21 is a chart 22 having a pluralityof lines 23 numbered (1 to 15 inclusive) corresponding to the knobs or buttons. The titles of the records are written upon the lines 23, and the records are placed in the compartments 24, so that their titles would correspond to the numbers adjacent therlines 23. and numbers on the buttons or knobs. Therefore, should the record entitled Ben Bolt (which is written on the first line of the chart) be desired,

the operator pulls the button numbered 1,

in which case the downwardly extending arm 17 of said pull rod will discharge the record Ben Bolt from its respective compartment, until it 'islimited by the inclined surface 19, thereby enabling the record to 'be grasped by the hand of the operator.

Each of the other records that may be in I the vcompartments may be removed in a like I the top of which has a depending part spaced between the front and rear walls of the cabinet, said depending part having oppositely arranged alined guides, a pluralityof record ejectors, each ejector comprising right angle extending arms, one extending horizontally andmounted in a pair of said directly oppo-z site guides, the other arm depending down- In testimony whereof We have signed our.

names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing wltnesses.

HARRY H. PEMBERTON. CHARLES A. MOORE.

Witnesses:

THOMAS OSCAR S'rmn, OLA M. DAW.

come; of thll pstent niay be' obtained' for'five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents 1' i Washington, D. c. 

